Imagine you’re an investor or an employee in a hugely ambitious two-year-old tech company, with a rock star founding team which has just raised $US1.3 billion ($1.98 billion) in early-stage funding … then imagine you are browsing X and see those founders happily announcing that they are off to take a salaried day job elsewhere.

You would be pretty astonished and angry, right? Yet, this is what has just happened at Inflection AI, and everyone is acting strangely chilled out about it all.